Casey Hutsell has become a patrol captain with the U.S. Forest Service based in Rolla.
The job entails the supervision of U.S. Forest Service law enforcement activities on the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, and the Shawnee National Forest and the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois.
Hutsell has served as a law enforcement officer for about 18 years. He was a police officer at Bowling Green and in Jefferson City for a total of eight years before beginning his career with the U.S. Forest Service, which has spanned another decade.
Immediately before this position, Hutsell worked on the Mark Twain National Forest as a law enforcement officer responsible for patrolling the Potosi/Fredericktown and Salem Ranger Districts.
Hutsell was raised in Success, and graduated from Houston High School. He then went on to graduate from Central Missouri State University. He spent most of his Forest Service career on the Tonto National Forest outside of Phoenix, Ariz., and then spent a year on the Plumas National Forest in northern California before returning to Missouri.
Hutsell is married with two daughters and he enjoys traveling, hunting, hiking and fishing.
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